Category Archives: speakers

The leader of the pack (imo).

The Plantronics take on Avnera’s first gen AudioMagic chips seems to capture the yellow jersey.  Logitech, Creative, and Freetalk may very well still be selling at a strong clip, but the feature set and execution of the .Audio 995 seems to resonate with consumers more than the others – who admittedly are getting long in [...]

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Only one issue as Vizio Soundbar VSB210WS is reviewed on I4U (scored 8 out of 10)

Eight out of ten ain’t too shabby! I’ve written much about the Vizio soundbar and the next paragraph is no exception, but it’s nice to hear someone else’s take on products that wirelessaudioblog holds dear.  That said, a little more of my warm air follows…
I live the review, generally, but I do take umbrage with [...]

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iPhone 3.0 will support Stereo Bluetooth. Overall, very cool, but caveat emptor.

Stereo Bluetooth support on iPhone is coming with iPhone OS 3.0.  Welcome news for many, but beware of the reduced audio quality you will get from many existing 3rd party A2DP devices.  Generic A2DP only support SBC compression format for wireless transmission, and therefore you will get nasty transcoding (or tandem) artifacts resulting in muddy, [...]

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Vizio Soundbar (VSB210WS) available now… goodness within

The Vizio Soundbar (VSB210WS) is finally available!
Go get it now!  See Walmart and Sears.  Or check out more info at Vizio’s homepage.
Warning.  What you are about to read is a biased, but pretty informed review.  I encourage you to check out reviews from other parts of the internet, and I will also link as many [...]

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Great user review of the RF-WS02 outdoor wireless speaker

This www.bestbuy.com user (SR24) “gets” it.  In fact, she got almost every major differentiated feature that sets this product apart from others…  personally, I LOVE the fact she likes the group volume feature.
We bought two of these speakers to use in our living room and not outdoors. We only used one of the senders, but [...]

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Another speaker in a light bulb socket idea from Castiglione Morelli

Bulb Sound Kit.
Nice.  But where is the light gonna come from?  Also… they ripped off the wrong Altec Lansing logo.

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